On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Oscar Olsson wrote:

OO> However, we've been experiencing intermittent SCSI subsystem crashes. 
OO> We're running the standard 2.6 based Suse EL kernel, now with the default 
OO> drivers/modules that are shipped with SuSE, so we can at least get support 
OO> from Novell if this happens again (we reinstalled the box earlier today).

And this seems to have helped. It hasn't crashed once, and its been 
running plenty of backups during the last 24h.

We also added the following to modprobe.conf.local in order to increase 
the buffer size of the st driver, since we use 64k block size on the 
tapes:

options st buffer_kbs=64

//Oscar

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